The problem of pure consciousness : mysticism and philosophy /

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Are mystical experiences formed by the mystic's cultural background and concepts, as ""constructivists"" maintain, or do mystics sometimes transcend language, belief, and culturally conditioned expectations? Do mystical experiences differ throughout the various religious tra...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Forman, Robert K. C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997, ©1990.
Subjects:
Mysticism.
Consciousness > Religious aspects.
Mysticism
Mysticisme.
Conscience > Aspect religieux.
mysticism.
RELIGION > Mysticism.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : mysticism, constructivism, and forgetting / Robert K.C. Forman
  • I. The empirical investigation. The unseen seer and the field : consciousness in Sāṃkhya and yoga / Christopher Chapple
  • Pure consciousness and Indian Buddhism / Paul J. Griffiths
  • Eckhart, Gezücken, and the ground of the soul / Robert K.C. Forman
  • Ayin : the concept of nothingness in Jewish mysticism / Daniel C. Matt. II. The philosophical investigation. Contemporary epistemology and the study of mysticism / Daniel Rothberg
  • Mysticism and its contexts / Philip C. Almond
  • Are pure consciousness events unmediated? / Stephen Bernhardt
  • Does the philosophy of mysticism rest on a mistake? / Anthony N. Perovich, Jr.
  • On the possibility of pure consciousness / Mark B. Woodhouse
  • Is mystical experience everywhere the same? / Norman Prigge and Gary E. Kessler
  • Experience and interpretation in mysticism / R.L. Franklin.

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